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6 7/8" Jimmie King Jr Navajo silver Coral, onyx, and Shell channel inlay Cuff<br>Bracelet. 190.4 grams, fits up to a 6 7/8" wrist including the gap.<br><br><br><br><br>For over a quarter of a century, Navajo silver and goldsmith Jimmie King, Jr.<br>excited the imagination of jewelry lovers. His unique heavy metal work style and<br>delicate inlay earned him a reputation as a master jeweler.<br><br>His work is a combination of strength and delicacy. The most common reaction<br>when people first pick up a piece of his work is to comment on the weight of the<br>jewelry. It feels substantial. It is inlaid with precision and color awareness,<br>marking it as King's alone. King was particular about his work, refusing to<br>hurry a piece and willing to melt it down if unsatisfied with the result. Every<br>piece is hand-built and finished.<br><br>He lived and worked just off the northern edge of the Navajo reservation near<br>Farmington, New Mexico. His interests included reading, learning new things, and<br>listening to opera as he created his jewelry.<br><br>King created the inlay cube, the solid link bracelet with an inlaid clasp, and<br>the "Sky High" bracelet. He has won top awards at the Gallup Intertribal<br>Ceremonial and featured in several books and magazines about Native American<br>art. His jewelry is signed in cursive "JR" for his name's first and last<br>initials. Six dots in a semi-circle above the letters stand for the six sacred<br>directions: North, East, South, West, the Sky, and the Earth.<br><br>Years ago, in a ceremony, a medicine man told him that if he put these dots on<br>his jewelry, everything would go well for Jimmie - it appears he was right.<br><br><br><br><br>All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry<br>referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin)<br>silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what<br>it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings<br>photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if<br>the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is<br>shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.
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